September 2012
Beginner
312 pages
7h 7m
English
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The Formatting of My E-Book Has Gone Wrong
Software packages have their own, special quirks — as do different e-readers and e-retailers. If your e-book turns out looking quite different from what you wanted, you might need to do some troubleshooting.
Always allow plenty of time for formatting your manuscript correctly, especially for your first e-book. Preview the text on at least one physical e-reader device (such as a Kindle or NOOK), and look at it using e-reader software on your computer. If it doesn’t look quite right, do your best to fix it.
Keep these points in mind to handle formatting gone awry:
One common cause of formatting problems is the special character. After I created my first e-book in the MOBI and EPUB formats in Calibre, I found that all the quotation marks had been stripped out. They were present in my HTML file, but in the form of smart quotes (known as “curly” quotes). The solution was easy: I used the Find and Replace feature in Word to change all smart quotes to straight quotes, and then I repeated the conversion process in Calibre with the Smarten Punctuation option selected. It doesn’t sound logical — but it worked. (See Chapter 8 for more on converting files in Calibre.)
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